The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Points Furnished by Prominent Men
Who Visit Gotham.

Points Furnished by Prominent Men
Who Visit Gotham.
NEW YoRK, July IT, --Rotund and burly
Tom Corrigan, of Kansas City, who sur
prises all by the softness of his voice, which,
like the late John Morrissey, he seldom ex-
erts above whisper, looks admiringly on
Jake Sharp's canary cars on Broadway
from the portals of the St James Hotel
| Before Sharp's legal misfortunes Tom used
TO be styled the Jake Sharp of Kansas
| City, because before he sold out to the
! Boston syndicate he used to control the
city railroad interests in Kansas City. 1t
is to be said for Corrigan that he obtained
his concessions and franchises by dint of
| hard work, and in this respect he is entirely
! unlike Sharp, as he used TO personally work
! in the street in building and running his
roads, while that gentleman never per
| formed any duty that he could deputize.
| Corrigan evidently does not feel at ease IN
the big city of New York, and is not in
clined to talk to any but his intimates;
nor is he disposed to discuss any
subject with which he is not
entirely familiar. New York is a great
city, he says refectivcly. Its street car
| system is no greater than mine used to be
considerin' the service, but it's great city
of magnificent houses and elegant streets
And what a place Coney Island is! What
big thing the ocean is! Beats all the
prairies | ever see for extent of view"
Toms safely invested capital received from
the Boston syndicate inclines him TO be con-
| sentative III his views in regard to the big
real estate boom in the West. He says real
estate i'll Kansas City, which he believes to
be more like New York than Chicago, will
hold and increase its value, but the boom
elsewhere is a balloon that will burst
When in a laxative mOodCOrrigan tells some
amusing stories of his early experiences i'll
tracklaying in Kansas City, and his bobtail
cars winding about the city, until "Corri-
gan's consolidated" got too big for him to
tontro with his limited financial admins
crative experience. There is an inward
chucltle of satisfaction when he says he sold
out, adding: But the biys III make big
money"
The redoubtable Col. S. S. Smart, so well
known in departmental and speculative cir
Giles in Washington, and who probably
knows more about Western land specula-
ton and location than any man outside of
| the Land Office, is to be seen about the cor
ridors of the Grand Central when he is not
| to be encountered in those of the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel. He is spending the summer in
| the city watching the market-the Wall
street market He strokes his long NOUS
tache complacently, and there is CLEAN in
| his eye as he says there is money to be made
this summer in the rises and falls of the mar
in railroad and telegraph matters, prelimi-
nary to the bull movement i'll the fall. He
| is just now watching the telegraph deal with
both eyes, confident that the deal will soon
mature, when he expects Western Union to
| jump to so and waits to get lot of it at 76
| Col. Smart is no Sellers, because he is often
winner He thinks John Sherman will
receive the nomination from the Republ-
cans.
Henry Watterson, who has steadily i'm
proved since his serious illness of last year
until he looks better and healthier than he
has for years, had hardly registered his
name at the Everett House before the re
porters were after him TO interview him on
the political situation. He believes Cleve-
land will be nominated by the Democrats
and can be elected over Blaine or Sher-
man. Mr.. Watterson believes New York
| city is a natural summer resort, but In order
| to obtain the sea bath so much enjoyed by
| those from the interior he will take his wife
to his usual haunt, Block Island. Mr..
Watterson predicts for the South
| n great boom in all its interests and de
clareS that the present improved senti-
| ment prevailing will grow stronger.
Ex-senator Malone, lean, lank and
anguid the very opposite in appearance
and manner to Gov. Lee, who was so re-
Gently here, like him speaks of cole Virgin
ny" as i'll a prosperous condition, only he
has some complaints to make of the hard
ships of the internal revenue on the tobacco
farmers, who are largely in the ascendant in
the State. A short while ago the anti-Ma-
hone faction in the State felicitated them
selves that the ''old man. was settled, but
the ex-senator intimates, as far rs his char
acteristic caution will permit, that he has
his lines well in hand and he can read his
title quite clearly, which is a gentle intima-
ton that he can control sufficient votes to
satisfy his ambition, whatever it may be-
He did not seem inclined to talk on national
politics, merely observing Blaine was mag
nificently advertising himself by his foreign
tour and escaping local complications
The story is whispered that the famous
Burchard campaign speech was the work of
a son of the notorious divine, who was at
the time connected with one of the metro
politan papers. DR.. Burchard discussed the
speech with this son, who was much given
to ALTERATION and the sensational in his
writings, and the father allowed kim to
prepare the political or concluding portion
of the speech, which was u bombshel not
only in the Republican ranks, but in those
of the Democracy. Blaine said in recent
interview that he did not hear Burchards
remarks or he should have replied 1t
should be added that proof copy of Burch-
ards speech was supplied to the reporters
present, which, it is averred, was furnished
by the son, who was present in his reporto-
rial capacity. HENRY JAMES.